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How a glitch in an online survey replaced the word ‘yes’ with ‘forks’

pewresearch.org

Pew Research Center illustration At Pew Research Center, we routinely ask the people who take our...
Pew Research Center illustration At Pew Research Center, we routinely ask the people who take our surveys to give us feedback about their experience. Were the survey questions clear? Were they engaging? Were they politically neutral? While we get a wide range of feedback on our surveys, we were surprised by a commen...

debugging web
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Lightpanda | The headless browser

lightpanda.io

ai automation browser browsers crawler
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Chunking attacks on Tarsnap (and others)

daemonology.net

Ten years ago I wrote that it would require someone smarter than me to extract information...
Ten years ago I wrote that it would require someone smarter than me to extract information from the way that Tarsnap splits data into chunks. Well, I never claimed to be the smartest person in the world! Working with Boris Alexeev and Yan X Zhang, I've just uploaded a paper to the Cryptology ePrint Archive describin...

cryptography security
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GitHub - shaarli/Shaarli: The personal, minimalist, super-fast, database free, bookmarking service - community repo

github.com

web
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GitHub - rustfoundation/interop-initiative: In collaboration with the Rust Foundation, Rust Project, and appropriate external stakeholders, make C++ and Rust interoperability easily accessible and ...

github.com

c++plt rust
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I want a good parallel computer

raphlinus.github.io

hardware performance
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How to share mouse, keyboard, and monitors between windows, macos, and Linux? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

I have my own business where I’m doing consulting with for various clients, and I’ve ended...
I have my own business where I’m doing consulting with for various clients, and I’ve ended up with four different computers on my desk (personal desktop, personal/work laptop, client laptop #1, client laptop #2). I am trying to figure out how to cleanly share my peripherals with all the different computers. I’ve tried: software KVM (Synergy), but this doesn’t let me share the displays,...

ask practices programming
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GitHub - sequentialread/pow-bot-deterrent: A proof-of-work based bot deterrent. Lightweight, self-hosted and copyleft licensed.

github.com

devops security web
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Garnix Blog: What Comes After GitHub Actions?

garnix.io

nix programming
1
Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth

cloudflare.com

ai ai bots bot management bots machine learning
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Torch Lens Maker

victorpoughon.github.io

python science
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Engineering flexible permissions for Zulip open-source team chat

zulip.com

How we seamlessly transitioned thousands of organizations to a group-based permissions system in a performance-sensitive application....
How we seamlessly transitioned thousands of organizations to a group-based permissions system in a performance-sensitive application. Zulip is an open-source team chat application designed for remote and hybrid work. With conversations organized by topic, Zulip is ideal for both live and asynchronous communication. ...

programming
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Recommendations for an OS to install on an old Mac laptop? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

A relative owns an old Mac laptop, a MacBook Pro 5,5, that is used as, basically,...
A relative owns an old Mac laptop, a MacBook Pro 5,5, that is used as, basically, a Chromebook: to run Google Chrome to run Google Docs and other Google Web apps. The laptop runs Mac OS 10.11 and cannot update further. Its Google Chrome is stuck on an old version, 103.0.5060.134, because newer versions no longer support Mac OS 10.11. As of recently, Google...

ask mac
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Understanding various syntaxes to annotate a function's type in TypeScript | Jayesh Bhoot

bhoot.dev

I often found myself second guessing while writing type annotations for TypeScript functions. To make it...
I often found myself second guessing while writing type annotations for TypeScript functions. To make it intuitive in future, I try to make sense of various syntaxes TypeScript provides in order to annotate functions. I was able to boil it all down to the following: Either individually annotate the function paramete...

javascript web
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The mistakes and missed opportunities in the design of IPv6 - episode 1

hanazo.no

This post does not reflect the views on current, past or future employers. The opinions in...
This post does not reflect the views on current, past or future employers. The opinions in this article are my own.This is a series of articles of my musings on why IPv6 failed. Previous article. Most networking protocols over the history of computer networking has failed. What makes up a successful protocol is defi...

blog developer networking personal
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The right way to do data fixtures in Go — brandur.org

brandur.org

Every test suite should start early in building a strong convention to generate data fixtures. If...
Every test suite should start early in building a strong convention to generate data fixtures. If it doesn’t, data fixtures will still emerge (they’re that necessary), but in a way that’s poorly designed, with no API (or a poorly designed one), and not standardized. Other languages tend to have common libraries for ...

go testing
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What are you doing this weekend? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help...
Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

ask programming
1
The IndieWeb Doesn't Need to "Take Off" - Susam's Quick Notes

susam.net

culture
2
Not dropping RISC-V support after all (maybe)

chimera-linux.org

hardware linux
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GitHub - tuananh/hyper-mcp: Model Context Protocol on steroids ;)

github.com

A MCP server (Model Context Protocol) with a plugin system powered by WebAssembly & OCI registry....
A MCP server (Model Context Protocol) with a plugin system powered by WebAssembly & OCI registry. Comments

ai rust wasm
1
EU forces Apple to open up notifications and other iOS features to third-party developers

mezha.media

ios
1
"Vibe Coding" vs Reality

cendyne.dev

ai
2
Progress Report: Linux 6.14 - Asahi Linux

asahilinux.org

As March draws to a close and Linux 6.14 nears release, now is a good time...
As March draws to a close and Linux 6.14 nears release, now is a good time to provide you all with our first major progress update since taking the lead on the project. Going forward, we hope to keep these updates in sync with upstream kernel releases. We feel that this is a natural cadence given the focus on upstre...

linux
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Dear Apple and Google: still no app rollbacks? - Blog - Tramline

tramline.app

InsightsNative support for app rollbacks is still missing in the app stores, and could be a...
InsightsNative support for app rollbacks is still missing in the app stores, and could be a game-changer for delivering reliable mobile experiences. Are Cupertino and Mountain View paying attention?Congratulations, you just shipped this month’s first app update. It took you almost two weeks to get this out, and it s...

android ios mobile
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